I was proud to introduce, along with 13 of my colleagues in the Senate and Congressman Bobby Scott in the House, a bill ...
We've got to ultimately probably change that nomenclature.
I'm pleased to be a part of the discussion today. It's very enlightening.
According to a recent study from the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, 13 percent of Wisconsin's African American me...
I mean, I think if any member of this Committee had the opportunity to meet the hundreds of women that I did time with, ...
I think your points on solitary confinement are dead on and we need to fix that.
I think we can only draw the conclusion that in terms of curbing substance abuse and addiction, that those laws are a fa...
The fact is, 98 percent of those who get a Bachelor's or a higher degree never return to prison.
In Wisconsin, African Americans constitute only 6 percent of the State population, a little bit more. Thirty-five percen...
I believe that has continued over time, and we have additional restrictions once a person is back in the community.
We have recently had a major victory in a bipartisan manner, working with Governor Christie, to overhaul our State's bai...
I am happy to hear that the Pell Grants, there is a pilot going on within the Federal system with Pell Grants.
Forty-five percent of the inmates at our Federal correctional facility, Oxford, are African American, and 19.3 are Hispa...
I think that a very appropriate part of my punishment, if it was not confinement in a prison, would have been a lengthy ...
I think what you have seen in this hearing is that there is a great deal of bipartisan agreement that what we are doing ...
one of the things I am working with Senator Booker on is a 'ban the box' for Federal employees to serve as an example, s...
From my standpoint, a rigorous dose of community reparation and those types of programs, community service, I think is p...
More must be done to change the culture at the VA.
